CTC 358: CASE An Embossed Project

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Welcome back to my blog for a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. I missed out on playing last week, so it's good to be back!

This week we are asking you to CASE a project that uses embossing from any of the three current catalogues. It can be heat embossing or dry embossing - whatever takes your fancy!

I'm a bit of a lazy crafter, so dry embossing is my first choice. After perusing the Mini Catalogue, I settled on the above card from page 57. I really liked the striped background, and especially how it uses both DSP and embossed cardstock in the matching colours.

I chose to use the SAB reward DSP, Friendly Hello, on my card. The colours are Pool Party, Petal Pink and Fresh Freesia, on a base of Misty Moonlight. The latter isn't from the DSP, but I thought it was a nice base to ground the design. The strips were embossed with the Hive 3DEF.

Hand-Penned Petals and Biggest Wish were used on the front of the card, coloured with the same colours as the background strips. I cropped them with the Beautiful Shapes Dies.

If you've followed me for a while, you'd know that I try to use up my scraps. The inside of the card is the perfect opportunity to do so. The offcuts from the front of the card were used to decorate the inside.

That's all from me for tonight, but your part in this challenge is just beginning! We'd love for you to play along, which is as easy as making a card based on an embossing project in any of the current catalogues and then uploading a photo to our Facebook Group.

Your other job is to continue on with the blog hop! There's plenty of Crew inspiration to be found, so just keep on hopping until you complete the circle. You won't want to miss the awesomely fun card that Michelle Stradz has created!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 592: Just Choose Two

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Hooray, it's both Friday and time for the new Just Add Ink challenge - both of which bring me joy! Nikki has challenged us to Choose Two from Texture, Patterned Paper, or Layers to add to our cards.

After a bit of thought I decided that I'd go with layers and texture, with the layered element being my Butterflies & Flowers Layering Decorative Masks.

I dug up some of my long-retired Corrugated Cardstock to provide the textural element of my card. The flowers were stencilled over the top using Flirty Flamingo, Polished Pink, Granny Apple Green and Just Jade. I also snuck in a bit of layering with the sentiment.

My husband saw my card this morning and confessed that he'd had to run his fingers over it to see if it was inked or embroidered. I was thrilled, as the faux-embroidery look was exactly what I was going for!

I repeated the stencilling on the inside - it looks so different on flat cardstock! The textured is definitely more forgiving on errors.

Which two will you choose for this week's challenge? I can't wait to see what you make. You can join our challenge by adding your card to the linky on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also see the rest of the Design Team cards - well worth a look!

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Poppy Parade

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Are you enjoying this week's Colour Creations Blog Hop? Poppy Parade is such a happy red! I was finally able to place an order, which scored me the Driving By stamp set as a Sale-A-Bration reward. I have a friend who has a restored Combi van that is red, so I used it for inspiration for my card tonight.

I used my Poppy Parade and Basic Black Stampin' Blends to colour the combi, which was then fussy cut.

The road is simply cropped using one of the Suit & Tie Dies, and then I used a white gel pen to hand draw the lane markings. If you don't have the S&T dies, there's a similar die in the All Dressed Up Dies.

I repeated the scene again for the inside, but oriented it to the left. I quite like stamping the sentiment at the bottom of the card rather than in the middle. Just something a little bit different!

That's all from me for this week's Blog Hop, but please do continue your way around our hop. Just keep going until you get back to where you started. The next cab off the ranks is my lovely friend, Christine Blain.

If you get stuck along the way, please jump on over to Catherine Proctor's blog. She's got a list of all participants, and you'll be able to pick up your trail again there.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 591: Just Add A Sketch

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Yay, it's time for the new Just Add Ink challenge!

How fun is this sketch that Narelle has designed for our inspiration? There's lots of scope for you to play with - your imagination is the limit!

One of my nephews turned 16 recently, and I know he was keen to get his Learner's Permit, so I decided to make a suitable card for him. The classic car is from a retired SU DSP pack, called Classic Garage. The shape of these muscle cars is so cool, and hopefully liked by a 16 year old boy.

The car and the numerals were both popped up from the card base. The sentiments on the front were both from a retired Kindred Stamps set, called Electrifying.

I can't bear to waste the partial cars that are on the edge of the DSP, so I chose one to use on the inside of my card. It looked a bit plain without the DSP circle behind it, but then the circle was too empty at the top, so the sentiment was added over the top. 

That's all from me, but your job is just starting! Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find lots more inspiration from the Design Team. You'll also find our linky, where you can add your card to our challenge gallery.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Pool Party

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Welcome to a new Colour Creations Blog Hop, where we are featuring each of the colours in the Stampin' Up! range in alphabetical order. This week it's Pool Party week. A little ironic, as it's been cool and rainy all day here -definitely not pool party weather!

I was in the mood for a CAS card this week, so after perusing my stamp collection, I settled on Daisy Lane. It's been a while since I've used it, so it was well past time to brush off the dust.

I started by inking the circle using my Blending Brush and a mask made from copy paper and a circle die. The two daisies were stamped over the top and then a third, completely uncoloured daisy was stamped on some scrap card and popped up over the top.

I used the same techniques on the inside, but as you can see, with a stripe instead of a circle. Can you believe that I eye-balled stamping the sentiment? I was pretty impressed with how straight and even I was able to get it!

That's all from me for tonight, but please do jump on over to see what my friend, and fellow South Aussie, Diane Furniss, has created.

If you run into a problem, the best place to start is the blog of our lovely hostess, Catherine Proctor. She's got a list of all participants on her blog, so you can pick up the Hop again there.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 356: Heart & Home Colours

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Oh, boy! Where did that weekend go? But happily, the end of the weekend means that it's time for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop.

This week we are asking you to CASE the colours of the Heart & Home DSP. You can see a list of them in the graphic above.  I chose to sort of CASE the piece of DSP that you can see under the SU logo in the graphic. I liked the white design over the Fresh Freesia base.

I started with a card front sized piece of Freesia cardstock which I embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3DEF. I then used a Blending Brush to ink the edges with coordinating ink. It was very hard to photograph - but it really makes the flowers pop off the background.

I cropped both layers of the Many Layered Blossoms Dies from Whisper White card. I first adhered a piece of Adhesive Sheet to the back of the card that I cropped the finer layer from - it makes it much easier to stick down to the bottom layer. The whole piece was popped up on Dimensionals. A Tasteful Labels die was used to crop the Peaceful Moments sentiment.

I cropped a smaller piece of the fine layer of Blossoms for the inside of the card. You can hopefully see that I've applied some Freesia ink first.

We'd love for you to play along with our challenges each week. It's as easy as making an appropriate card and then uploading a photo to our Facebook Group.

Once again, I am the last stop on the Blog Hop if you joined us from the start in the Facebook group. If you joined part way through, please keep hopping until you get back to where you started. The net stop is my fabulous friend, Rachel Palmieri, who has a very sweet card for you to see.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 590: Just Add Inspiration

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Thanks for joining me for this week's Just Add Ink challenge. We have an Inspiration Photo for you this week, selected by Nikki.

Such a cute little succulent! I have no idea of what type it is, but the flowers are so pretty! I don't have a lot of succulent-related stuff in my physical stash, so I went looking through my digi stamps for ideas, and stumbled across this little beauty.

She's called Springtime Girl and is from Stamp Anniething, and I think that she was a prefect choice for this challenge! 

I've coloured her with my Copic Markers, trying to pull colours from the Inspiration Photo. I deliberately made her blonde, as I have very dark brown hair. If I don't think about it, all the people that I colour end up with brown hair!

Being a digi stamp on a PDF, it's tricky to print her off again to use on the inside, so I tried to create a succulent on the inside. I used the pot die from my Perfect Plants Dies and just hand drew the outline. The plant is from an old set - I can't recall the name - that had a llama and a cactus tree in it. I've just chopped up the tree, added hand-drawn lines, and arranged the pieces in the pot.

I can't wait to see what inspires you in our challenge image this week. Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll see the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You can also add your card to our challenge linky.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Petal Pink

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Welcome to Petal Pink week of the Colour Creations Blog Hops. I thought that I'd give a Fancy Fold a spin this week. I'm not exactly sure of the name of the fold, it's just something that's been bouncing around in my 'must try this' part of the brain for a while. I guess it's some kind of Easel card. I'm certainly not claiming to have invented the fold -I just can't recall where/when I saw it.

Here's the card flat. I scored the front of the card base in half and then ran it though my Big Shot with the second largest Layering Circles Die, but with the top plate of the sandwich only covering the top half of the card front, level with the score line. I hope that makes sense! The effect of this was that only the top half of the circle die cut through the card stock.

You can see it a bit better when it's open in the easel position. The top half of the circle pops up from the top. You could probably get the same effect by just adhering a circle die cut to sit over the top of the fold, by this way just adds a bit more fancy to the fancy fold, LOL.

Here's a closer look at the inside, with plenty of room to write a message.

The next stop along the way is the lovely Rachel Woollard. I can't wait to see what she's made with Petal Pink.

Catherine Proctor's blog is the place to go is you run into any difficulty. She's got a list of all participants on her blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 355: Sale-A-Bration Catalogue

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I don't know about you, but my weekend has vanished in a blink! LOL, I guess that's what happens when you get stuck into a good book! The end of the weekend means the start of the new CASEing The Catty Challenge, so it can't be all bad.

This week we are asking you to CASE a project from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue.

I chose this sweet little card, as I really loved the butterflies stamped over the inked cardstock. Aren't they pretty? I don't tend to make smaller cards, and so I decided to switch to a full sized card, and once I started switching things up my card came out very differently to the original.

So it still has butterflies and orange, and has the same die-cut label and white trim, bit otherwise not much is the same. I got a bit lazy with the inked cardstock and decided to stamp on some DSP from the Expressions In Ink SDSP pack using my Butterfly Brilliance stamp set.

The sentiment is from A Good Man - I found that I don't have many sentiments that are suitable for the vertical label from the Tasteful Labels Dies. A few sequins finished off the front of the card.

I don't want to add more butterflies to the inside, so I satisfied myself with a left over strip of the Expressions SDSP and another sentiment from A Good Man.

We'd love for you to play along with us this week while we CASE the SAB Catalogue. All you need to do is add a photo of your card to our Facebook group. Too easy!

Have you finished our Blog Hop? I'm the last stop this week, but if you started somewhere in the middle, then please keep on going until you get to where you started. The first blog this week is Julia Quinn's blog, with her delightful 3D card.

Bye for now,

Tina